I went to the big hardware store and asked for a sample size of the paint colour.
I learned the Ralph Lauren doesn't make paint anymore but they looked up the formula for the colour (Lancaster Blue if you are interested) and mixed up a little pot for me.
I went home and went to town. Paint, paint, paint. Touch up here, touch up there.
Waited for the paint to dry and the colour to lighten a little. IT NEVER HAPPENED. Now my room looked like Camo and Avo had painted it.
So, I went back and bought a big can of that paint.
Today, I spent the morning painting my room. I put the baby gate up, told Marley she was in charge and went at it.
Three walls down, one to go. It looks just like before, only fresher and cleaner.
Lesson - do not paint match and then use this paint as touch up paint, unless you have that little formula tag they stick on top of the cans. Even then, if your paint has faded it will not match.
Good to know. My lesson today was the "don't tie your dog to the ski rack" lesson. After tying Stella up I quickly ran inside to buy my trail pass, and as I was coming back out a guy on his way in said "umm I think your dog just pulled the ski rack down"... My reply "ohhh Thanks" as I get past him and out the door to see Stella, a few people and a bunch of skis on the snow. As a tall woman with an accent told me apparently what happened was it got windy, Stella got spooked and bolted, dragging the ski rack with her! Thankfully (?) the only casualty was my ski pole... Which survived but temporally sported a 90 degree bend. Note to self, think twice before tying spooky dog to (potentially not) stationary object.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got to it! I am jealous you can paint during the day... we finally got rid of the pink wall after many nights of post 8pm painting!
ReplyDeleteAnd MarMar babysat for you. What a sweet lady she is, helping out her Mama like that.
ReplyDeleteWe touched up paint a few years ago with colour matching at Benjamin Moore and it was perfect-o. We had moved a thermostat and patched up a hole in the wall, and you would never have been able to tell that it was patched and painted.
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